Trees harvested without felling
Cork, rubber, syrup and resin — crops taken from a living tree year after year, and the economies built on keeping it standing.
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Trees№ 1055 minCork Oak: The Tree You Harvest Without Cutting
An oak whose bark regrows after stripping, sustaining a wine-stopper economy and one of Europe's richest farmed landscapes — both threatened by the screw cap.
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Trees№ 4025 minRubber: Latex, Tapping, and a Fungus Waiting Across an Ocean
A tree tapped daily for latex without harm — grown in vast Asian monocultures precisely because the leaf disease that would destroy them stayed in the Amazon.
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Trees№ 2835 minMaples: Sap, Shade, and Autumn Colour
The Acer genus from sugar maple to sycamore — tapping for syrup, why some are invasive elsewhere, and where each fits in a planting.
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Trees№ 1195 minDate Palm: The Tree That Made the Oasis Possible
A desert palm that tolerates heat, drought and salt, offsets its own shade for the crops beneath it, and is propagated only from offshoots.
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Trees№ 0925 minCoconut: The Tree of a Thousand Uses
A palm that disperses itself across oceans, yields for most of a century, and supplies food, water, oil, fibre and timber from one crop.
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Restoration№ 3916 minRestoration Economics: What It Costs and Who Pays
Realistic cost ranges, why maintenance is the line item that gets cut, and the funding structures that keep projects alive past year three.